Comment 10 for bug 168484

probably yes:
the used glib functions g_filename_to_uri g_filename_from_uri use absolute file names

http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-Character-Set-Conversion.html

Where it should be fairly easy to write the needed function for unixes it will be tricky for win32. Thought the g_lib function is handy :-(
Adib.
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